Energy shortages in Texas, and China

Load shedding is one of the issues that I annually brought before my mining students, in discussing electric power within the mines that the...

The UK winter starts - salt, coal, and natural gas supplies

The severe weather that is sweeping the United Kingdom is posing an early demand on the stored supplies of fuel, and on the grit supplies th...

Conventional Coal Production is rising

Gregor MacDonald had a couple of interesting charts on coal demand that should get greater attention. The first was the relative pace at w...